Welcome! Here are some answers to frequently asked questions. If you have any other questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us by emailing help@amplify.com.

Learn more about: Student experience | Teacher dashboard | Finding activities | Creating classes | Assigning activities | Account questions

Students will learn by interacting with mathematical representations, illustrations of the world, and their classmates. They’ll represent their developing ideas with sketches, text responses, card sorts, number responses, multiple choice questions, and more.

Click Student Preview on any activity to experience it as a student.

Teachers will learn about their students from the Teacher dashboard, which you can access after by clicking the blue Teach button after you assign the activity.

In the dashboard, you can use the Teacher view to answers questions like:

The Summary view will answer questions like:

You might have the Anonymize feature turned on. From the Teacher dashboard under the activity title you will be able to turn the Anonymize feature on/off. Check out this article to learn more about our classroom conversation toolkit.

If you are unable to find your Teacher dashboard for a class from the Activity page or Dashboard History page, you might want to check your archived sessions. If the dashboard has been unassigned or archived you will be able to reassign or restore the Teacher dashboard by clicking on the Menu button (three vertical dots) to the right of the activity. If you still don’t see your activity, please write to help@amplify.com.

Our professional learning modules are designed to support teachers, schools, districts, and various organizations in using Desmos Classroom for teaching mathematics. Whether you are a teacher exploring for the first time, a school or district seeking to increase staff knowledge about our platform, or an international education company, we’re here to help. To learn more about our free events and webinars, check out our professional learning page.

To find an activity created or curated by the Desmos Classroom team, use the Search bar at the top of the screen. To learn more about how to find activities not created by the Desmos Classroom team, check out this article on searching for activities. A great place to start is in our Featured Collections and Most Popular Activities.

To edit an activity you found, click on the Menu button (three vertical dots) to the right of the activity title and select Copy and Edit. To create a new activity from teacher.desmos.com, select the Custom Activities tab on the left side panel. You will see an option to create a New Activity at the upper-right of the screen.

Create classes to assign activities to the same group of students throughout a school term. Students will use an invitation code to join the class at the beginning of the term. Check out managing your Desmos Classroom to learn more about setting up your classes.

You can add your co-teacher from your Classes tab located on the left side panel when signed in at teacher.desmos.com. Click on the Menu button (three vertical dots) to the right of the class you would like to add a co-teacher to. Next, select Manage Co-Teachers.

If you need to share your dashboard once in a while and don’t want to add the teacher as a co-teacher to your class, you can share a dashboard link. To do this from the Teacher dashboard, click on the activity title and select Share dashboard.

To learn more about adding co-teachers, check out managing your Desmos classroom.

Once you’ve created your classes, go back to the Activity page and Assign the activity. Your dashboard will be empty until students join. You can choose to assign the activity to one class or multiple classes. You can also create a single session class code.

When students log in at student.desmos.com, they will see any new activities you’ve assigned to the class.

You can access the Teacher dashboard for an activity you have assigned by clicking Teach on the Activity page. You can also access your Teacher dashboard from the Dashboard History page.

If you assigned an activity to your classes and then published changes to an activity, you will need to reassign the activity to students.

To embed the scientific calculator into your activity, you will need to have the activity editor open. Click on the title of the activity and select Enable scientific calculator on student screens. Once you have the scientific calculator embedded, you will need to publish the edits of your activity.

There is not currently a way for teachers to reset passwords, but we can help with this.

First, have the students go to student.desmos.com and click the Forgot Your Password link when they try to log in. They need to enter the email associated with their Desmos Classroom account. Normally, the password reset link will be sent to that email account.

If your school/district blocks external emails, you will need to email help@amplify.com. We will need to know the email address for the student. We also need to verify you are a teacher in the same school (emailing us from your school account is helpful).

Yes! Email us at help@amplify.com using the email address associated with your account. We will need the title of the activity you would like to restore, as well.

Make sure you are signed in at teacher.desmos.com and click on your name in the upper-right corner. Click on Account Settings and you'll see an option to change your email address. A link will be sent to the email you currently use for Desmos Classroom.

If the email address you are changing your account to is already linked to a Desmos Classroom account, you will need to email help@amplify.com and request for your activities, collections and graphs to be migrated from one account to another.

Go to teacher.desmos.com and make sure to sign in. Click on your username in the upper-right corner of the site and select Account Settings.

You'll see an option to Delete your Desmos Classroom Account? Click on the link and then select Send Delete Account Email. We will send an email to your current email address with a link to delete your account.

After 30 days of inactivity, your account will be permanently deleted. If you sign in prior to the 30 days, your account will be reactivated.